Dead rats and John Karr
Aug. 22nd, 2006 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonEnough with John Karr already, 'kay?
I live near LAX. Our house is less than a half-mile from the north runway and the airspace over our house is often used as a holding pattern for news helicopters covering events at the airport. Around 9 Sunday night, the air was suddenly filled with the thick, loud tom-tom of helicopters hovering low. I don't know how the news media manage it, but even the rotars of their helicopters sound frantic and febrile when after an Event. I was trying to watch that John Cameron "Exodus" show on the History Channel and wasn't in the mood for the interruption and the news media—I just didn't care what was going on because I've been through this too many times, have really had it with the infotainment industry—so I stubbornly kept turning the TV up and trying hard to ignore the roommate when she popped in every five minutes saying, "I wonder what's going on???" Finally, at the next commercial break, I switched to Channel 9 News and found out what was going on: the plane carrying attention-freak John Karr had landed. "Turn on Channel 9!" I yelled to my roommate, and switched back to the History Channel.
After about an hour the worst of it died down, but there were still some holdouts for the 11 o'clock news. The last helicopter didn't leave until about 11:15 or so.
Me personally? Don't give a hairy rat's posterior about John Karr and a ten-year-old murder case, as awful as the death of that little girl was. And I don't think Karr's the guy. He's getting his rocks off too much over the attention. I think he "confessed" for that attention-seeking or because he'd rather spend jail time in the U.S. than in Thailand.
And speaking of rats of the day: Remember our horrific experience with the dead possum? Yesterday morning it was a dead rat and closer than the garage—and I ain't sayin' no more than that because you may have just eaten or something. Suffice it to say, the roommate and I are wondering what kind of bugacious karma we're living through—and why???
Quotes of the day:
"The voices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility."
—Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
(All day yesterday after I pulled this from the quote file, I kept hearing Eric Cartman's voice yelling, "Authori-TAI!")
"Everything that is created must end. All, all round us must perish."
—Michelangelo
(Which explains why he was known as "Chuckles.")
I live near LAX. Our house is less than a half-mile from the north runway and the airspace over our house is often used as a holding pattern for news helicopters covering events at the airport. Around 9 Sunday night, the air was suddenly filled with the thick, loud tom-tom of helicopters hovering low. I don't know how the news media manage it, but even the rotars of their helicopters sound frantic and febrile when after an Event. I was trying to watch that John Cameron "Exodus" show on the History Channel and wasn't in the mood for the interruption and the news media—I just didn't care what was going on because I've been through this too many times, have really had it with the infotainment industry—so I stubbornly kept turning the TV up and trying hard to ignore the roommate when she popped in every five minutes saying, "I wonder what's going on???" Finally, at the next commercial break, I switched to Channel 9 News and found out what was going on: the plane carrying attention-freak John Karr had landed. "Turn on Channel 9!" I yelled to my roommate, and switched back to the History Channel.
After about an hour the worst of it died down, but there were still some holdouts for the 11 o'clock news. The last helicopter didn't leave until about 11:15 or so.
Me personally? Don't give a hairy rat's posterior about John Karr and a ten-year-old murder case, as awful as the death of that little girl was. And I don't think Karr's the guy. He's getting his rocks off too much over the attention. I think he "confessed" for that attention-seeking or because he'd rather spend jail time in the U.S. than in Thailand.
And speaking of rats of the day: Remember our horrific experience with the dead possum? Yesterday morning it was a dead rat and closer than the garage—and I ain't sayin' no more than that because you may have just eaten or something. Suffice it to say, the roommate and I are wondering what kind of bugacious karma we're living through—and why???
Quotes of the day:
"The voices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility."
—Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626
(All day yesterday after I pulled this from the quote file, I kept hearing Eric Cartman's voice yelling, "Authori-TAI!")
"Everything that is created must end. All, all round us must perish."
—Michelangelo
(Which explains why he was known as "Chuckles.")
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Date: 2006-08-22 06:40 pm (UTC)Guess no more trips to Freakville for the kids.
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 06:42 pm (UTC)Coffee. Nose. Thanks.
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Date: 2006-08-22 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-22 09:31 pm (UTC)I'm with you as far as news coverage goes. I'm even willing to give them 5 minutes of coverage at the end of newscasts... at the end. But for it to be the lead story? How about we get a count of how many other 6 year olds have been killed since then. That'd put this one case in perspective, I think.
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Date: 2006-08-22 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-23 02:45 am (UTC)Remember when they were free and vigorous and actually took the Power Structure to task?
No, I don't remember those days, either.
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Date: 2006-08-23 03:12 am (UTC)